Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. , Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a traveler to El Salvador, has attracted the attention of critics who believe that Maryland Democrats may have violated the 1799 law banning unauthorized diplomacy.
The Logan Act – named after former Pennsylvania Sen. George Logan – provides for fines and/or imprisonment for Americans in response to foreign officials.[ir] Countermeasures… in relation to a dispute or controversy with the United States, or to defeat US measures. ”
Logan meets with French diplomat Charles de Tullyland after Paris rejected President John Adams and tries to plead him with a letter from Vice President Thomas Jefferson.
In this way, some prominent conservatives questioned whether Van Hollen’s actions were similarly in violation of the law.
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Chris Van Hollen on the right talks to Kilmar Garcia after visiting him at El Salvador. (Reuters)
“Why wasn’t this US senator arrested for violating Logan Act? It’s illegal to implement your own foreign policy,” tweeted longtime Republican consultant Roger Stone.
Wmal host Vince Coglianese read the Logan Act law aloud and asked the audience that Van Hollen had outlined the code.
“Is Chris Van Hollen violating Logan’s law?” Koglian said. “This is what they blamed the generals. [Michael] Flynn of what he was doing… the next national security adviser… he was just talking to the diplomat. [after] People chose President Donald Trump. ”
Democrats were previously seized by Logan Act when Flynn contacted Russian ambassador Sergei Kisliac before he was sworn in for the first time, when Flynn ultimately led to the FBI probe and took his public service career.
A memo from former FBI agent Peter Struzock read as “VP: Logan Act,” and suggested that then-President Joe Biden used it to float on Flynn.
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Kilmar Garcia is a Salvadorian citizen who has been deported. (Fox)
Fox News contributor Byron York responded to X’s question about the issue by saying he had repeatedly argued about it.
“But politically, it’s useful to know that Senator Van Hollen traveled abroad to beat the US president.”
According to the New York Post, the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) has called on Senate Ethics Committee Chairman James Lankford, to investigate the violation.
AAF’s Thomas Jones said Garcia was “an enemy combatant in the ongoing invasion…by cross-border gangs.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Lankford for comment.
The law was last called by Trump critics after a book by Watergate journalist Bob Woodward claimed that he made several calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin among his conditions in the White House.
Trump was criticized by the “Never Trump” Lincoln Project and Kamala Harris over the allegations in Woodward’s book.
The agents also considered getting Flynn to admit to breaking Logan’s law.
One of the following: “What is our goal?” Note Former FBI anti-intelligence chief Bill Pretip read, “Can we indict him or fire him to make him true/entry or lie?”
After that situation, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler R-Pa. failed, seeking to abolish the Logan Act.
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Former Black, Manafort & Stone consultant Roger J. Stone Jr., Right, one of the conservatives seeking the call to the Logan Act. (Reuters)
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan proposed that it be used against Pastor Jesse Jackson for travel and communications to Cuba and Nicaragua.
Trump previously denounced both exs. John Kelly, D-Mass, who violated Logan Act through contact with Iran in 2019 and 2020. , and D-Christon. D-Conn. Senator.
“It’s literally my job to meet foreign leaders,” Murphy shot, citing his position in the Senate Middle East Subcommittee.
Ultimately, no one is being prosecuted under the Logan Act, as Philadelphia, the same name himself, was essentially a grandfather.
Fox News Digital reached out to Van Hollen for comment.
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